Star Trek Trivia!

A couple weeks ago, I was surprised to get an e-mail from a colleague—one with whom I would say I am friendly but not someone with whom I really socialize—inviting me to the regular trivia game he and some other colleagues participate in... but all became clear upon realizing it was Star Trek trivia. He was confident, my colleague said, that we would run the table if I joined in.

My wife was okay with me skipping a bedtime, so I did indeed join my colleagues at Magnanimous Brewing here in Tampa. Unfortunately, perhaps, Star Trek trivia does not have a wide popularity; my colleagues said there were many fewer teams than normal!

We did indeed crush it... though I don't think there were many super deep cuts; between my two colleagues, I think we got every question right but two, but I think there was just one question that I knew the answer to that neither of them did. (There was a question requiring one to name the captains of five different ships, and my colleague could only remember "Mariner's mom" for the captain of the USS Cerritos.) We came in first, but the small turnout meant that it was the bartender who came in second!

I haven't played trivia of any kind since I was in grad school, so it was a good time... even if it was not the deep cuts I might have really thrived at! But I think any set of Star Trek trivia questions that would have proved challenging for me would have been frustratingly unfun for most others.